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Patreon slash colt Cabana. Today's guest pretty Peter Avalon, and I am so
grateful to have Peter on my podcast. I said this to him privately,
I will say it publicly. He is one of the most underrated and underappreciated
wrestlers on the scene to day. He's what you would call a wrestlers wrestler.
Us the wrestlers in the back. We always love what Peter does,
how he performs, and sometimes you know, it takes a classically trained pro
wrestler to kind of understand the little things or the nuances, but we see
it and we appreciate it, and I appreciate Peter coming on the show.
There's a couple of really key points or things that I'd like to point out
about this talk. So we did this podcast in August. We did it
in Cologne, Germany, when I went with a crew of wrestlers to promote
AW Video Games. Actually, I'm gonna shout out the crew. It was
me Uno and Hellico, Peter, Chris Daniels, and referee Rick Knox,
along with some like the business people of AW Games like THHQ and some the
AW marketing team, and well, a lot has happened since this podcast we
did in my life personally and professionally. Amazingly enough, at the start of
the talk that I did with Peter, we kind of just started talking about
anxiety and mental health. And this episode was supposed to come out in early
September, and honestly, I just haven't been able to want to talk about
anything, so I just kind of delayed everything and I told Peter and he
was more than okay with it, obviously. And I didn't delay it because
the company that I worked for like told me not to talk about anything or
what I could or could not do, just kind of where my brain was
at, you know. I started the podcast in two ten and we don't
go every week now, but I like to put out shows occasionally spot letting
my friends or people that I find super interesting. And from the beginning,
you know, I was so open, maybe even to a fault, about
dealing with losing my dream job of THEWE or fighting to be an independent wrestler,
or how to make money in wrestling, or how to survive a lot
of things that I was very open about. And I knew I made fans
for life, which is I assumed you people listening to the show right now
because of my ability to be candid and real. And as I think about
it and as I did it, there was really two things that I just
kind of never touched. You know. It's a wall or a barrier,
or I'm good at compartmentalizing, which I know I am, but and I'm
not there yet, nor may I ever be. But a lot of you
probably notice I never really talked about significant others. I never really talked about
my relationships, which was kind of fun to hear people guess about my sexuality
over the years, or my lifestyle or how I conducted myself. But that
side of life was just something I didn't want to talk about, nor do
I want to talk about, and maybe that's stuff to work on. And
the other one is well, you know, kind of what's been going on.
I've been in the news, you know, whether it's now or for
the past whatever years it's been. I think the closest that you'll ever hear
me touch upon it was on an episode of the Art of Wrestling called The
Trial, which is where I documented all of my feelings while I was going
through the trial in which the WWE doctors sued me in a court of law
and lost. And so Peter talks about or brings up mental health and anxiety,
and looking back to the conversation with Peter, I noticed that I jumped
right on it, and I feel that's desperation to connect with a wrestler on
a deeper level than ever before, especially at that time when I was feeling
a lot of feelings. I mean, I'm always feeling a lot of feelings,
including now, but it was definitely prevalent at the time of this talk.
And if you go back and you listen to the Trial episode, and
I haven't, but I remember it very well, I recognized now the feelings
that I had were the feelings of debilitating anxiety. At the time, I
said, it was like a sign that I was alive and I loved it
because I was feeling feelings that I had never felt befored and meant that I
was going through something and that's part of life. And I was feeling those
because the trial and everything was traumatic, more traumatic than anything I've ever been
through, and I was in the eye of the hurricane. I was in
the middle of it. A couple of years ago, I seeked help.
I got help in many different ways. A while back, I started seeing
a professional. Many of you have noted my silence publicly with all that's been
going on with me, and that's because I'm working on myself privately, and
I'm not gonna say it's amazing or cured. It'll probably take years or decades.
Maybe I'll never fully healed or understand what my head and heart and feelings
are going through. But like the great Cody Rhodes once said, do the
work. I'm doing the work, and I'm not here to bash anyone or
take shots at anyone. And I've learned that there is no right or wrong.
I can't control what I can't control. I'm trying to understand why I
do things that I do and how I can control my feelings and only my
feelings and try to become a better person. So I command Peter for talking
with me about it. The whole thing isn't strictly about this, but it's
kind of the start of it. He didn't have to do it. I
appreciate his ability to be candid, and I appreciate you, the wrestling fan
who seem to understand. I mean, my Twitter has been a wild shit
show, and it's crazy how some people feel that their tweets towards you are
like an acceptable move in life, like you're allowed to do that. But
I've also been really good about not letting that affect me and also realizing that
whoever is tweeting this there, you're not a real human being, Like I
guess you have a lot of work to do. And here's some good advice.
If you ever have people going after you on Twitter, some more than
others, just go to that person's account and then look at their tweets and
you realize this is a them problem and not a you problem. So that
all goes into doing the work. And I don't know if that made any
clarity, but maybe you got a better idea of what I'm going through and
that I'm going through it, and also maybe when I'm at a convention,
you know, there's certain stuff you don't want to bring up. I think
I've said that forever. You know, I always love talking to people,
and I love talking wrestling, I love talking shop. But then once you
bring up some stuff that has been traumatic for me over years, I shut
down. And then you read on a message board somewhere, how cool to
dick and again trying not to read that. But sometimes stuff takes over the
Internet, and then I mean, it's happening, It's happened, it will
continue to happen. Before all of this went down, you know, I
like a hustling businessman that I am. I was trying to set up my
future in case my contract didn't get rolled over. I had seen it almost
happened to me before. And then, you know, I resigned a new
contract. But I was kind of unsure of my future, so I partnered
with a company called Whatnot. And this is not an ad, This is
just something that I'm doing. The ads will come later. I'm assuming I'm
still going to have a job with my employer. But the great thing about
AW is that we're allowed to work on ourselves and our businesses outside the company,
so Pro Wrestling Teas and I are still doing Whatnot. I host it.
I bring some items on from my closet over the years, and then
PWT they also have so many things from the warehouse over the years. It's
like kind of QVC meets eBay fast auction style shopping. And we're going to
do a live one from aew from the arena in Chicago in the building with
wrestlers selling their gear and exclusives. It's so much fun. Join us once
a week. It's usually Wednesdays, sometimes it's Tuesdays if I end up going
to work on Wednesdays. It's on an app called Whatnot or Pwtlive dot com
is a site that we may that will lead you to there. I wanted
to promote this Whatnot thing that we're doing. And I probably have so much
more to talk about, returning to Dynamite, doing the fringe, playing Fortnite
with Kip on Twitch, all the fun stuff that I usually talk about before
the podcast, But we'll do that next week. I got an episode next
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Hi. Let's talk about all your problems? All right? What are
you're in today? Have you been? Um? Have you been on all
this Britain? Okay, I'm here. Hello. We're in German first of
all, German rest first time? And have you been out of the country.
Yeah, I'm into China. Yeah, and to China and Mexico.
Those that's how the international has off going. What's your China Middle Kingdom Wrestling?
I was out there helping in produce the show and to produce the Battle
Royal that we had as the main event. It was me Zeta Zang Raylan.
We were all out there together for about a week. Was this one
aid started and they went by China? I'm not sure it was not with
aw you just went separately. It was separately, Yeah, that he was
working with us through a championship rustling from Hollywood and then he was doing his
own separate thing. Okay. Yeah, it was pretty cool and then hold
on. So, so you went out to produce what to produce the show
and to produce a show or like they have a they have that's a name
I've heard of the Middle Kingdom. Yeah. Right, they've been trying to
make their their show in China. I think they were trying to do everything
monthly and it was just I guess my turn. They wanted me to help
produce the show and try to you know, elevate it. Yeah, the
appearance of it like they did with Championship Rusting from Hollywood and and Championship Russ
of Arizona and you, and that's it. I'm a man, I'm the
man for your job. That was it. So it was nice. Did
you wrestle out there? I did. I also wrestled. I was featured
heavily in the Battle Royal. I came down to me and Zombie Dragon,
who's one of their main guys out there, and he beat me at the
last two. You know, I especially for you as a Los Angeles person,
you would think we had enough dragons. You'd think with Super and American.
I think that was a running joke for many years, right to the
point that there was a dragon Dragon in Chicara. Yeah, and uh,
we might as well add the zombie to it, might as well the dead
one. And what was Mexico or you know, being friends with Rocky Romero
for so many years, you just learned that every Los Angeles wrestler that's good
like wrestles in Mexico. Right, Yeah, it's nearby. Might as well?
Is that a thing? So when you say Mexico, do you do
you mean Tijuana Ja. That's one of time three hour drive maximum, I
think yeah. And then you work at the the TJ Arena down there,
it's Big Pact Arena, and uh it's me and Ray Ross against Yuma and
at the time Johnny good Time. Now Kevin Martinson. So he has changed
his name. Yep. Oh, so I didn't mean to out him.
I didn't know. If I don't keep up with the product. Well,
good to have you here. It's been so we've been hanging out in Germany
being German goop balls. It's nice that like we just get sent here from
a e W. Everything's kind of take can care of. I guess this
is the better part of the job. Yeah, this has been my favorite
trip ever wrestling. Yeah, it's a good crew here. Yeah, it's
a great crew, good thing, and I want to touch on that thing.
I'm going to edit this if you don't like it, though, But
you had talked about you've talked about that anxiety stuff. I don't know if
that was just for us or if that was for oh nah whatever. Yeah,
yeah, you mentioned this morning and again, I you tell me if
you don't want anything in there, because that's how I run my show.
That you were a little anxiety driven, and it's and I only bring that
up just because I think it's good to talk about because me berstally, when
you said that, I was like, oh what, you know, like
we're wrestlers, were out there, we're half naked, we're putting ourselves on
the line, and you were like, I got a little anxiety this morning.
Yeah, I could. I consider myself an introvert. I try to
be extroverted a lot of stuff, but it's an introvert I end up,
I kind of meet I will hit a threshold I guess of socialization. I
guess sometimes and just being around just mass amounts of people and uh, doing
a lot of my own personal work over the over the past a few years,
with like therapy and stuff like that, trying to I guess put a
put a term to stuff that I'm feeling, and it's like anxiety was a
big one of them. And uh, I am trying to also finally diagnosed
ADHD, so I'm also I'm handling that I put my I'm on medication.
I was say I put myself on medication. I did not. I wrote
a script. Yeah, yeah exactly. Now I went to doctor and I'm
on medication and everything now uh therapy and then uh healthy boundaries with with people
and family and stuff like that and just leads to better mental health. Well,
I just I say, because we're wrestlers and we're out there and I'm
you know, and we could both talk about our things because you know I
have that too, and I'm I found myself and tell me what you think
about Like the I found myself a little like introverted getting into wrestling. And
then once when you're younger and you're starting wrestling, you're just like, you'll
do it for me personally, I'll do anything. Like it was the same.
I became very extroverted. And then now like years later, I'm reverting
back to that same inch over. But when the when the light is on,
I'll do anything, right. I'm a maniac, right, like you
put a spotlight on me. I there's something different about that too, because
like when you're in the ring up, you're surrounded by the imense amount of
people there. They are watching you, but you're not having to like really
get to know each and every one of them. And then like when you
go into back into the back into the business setting, it's like, I
guess the anxiety was also from having to meet a lot of new executives and
a lot of this and a lot of new stuff and just I guess all
the new amount of people that I'm having to meet and then also represent at
the same time, aw and all this it's just you know, a lot,
I guess when you because you've done a lot of extra work. And
I so so lately I found myself under a lot of anxiety and so I
and I also have been, you know, seeking help for this. And
I remember, because I've got this like shock of whatever it is through my
body that I I guess you learned that it's anxiety. But like I'm trying
to think of back to when I had that kind of anxiety, and it
was when I would go to WWE and do extra work, right, So
I got my question was like were you were you also in thats when you
did that stuff? If by saying like meeting all these executives, because when
we're in our you know, we're trying to get a job in our young
twenties or whatever it is, it's like those are all the like the undertaker
is the executive, right, Like everybody is the exact Like luckily you're in
a place now where you're friends with all the wrestlers, but because there's new
people, but then you're friends with nobody. It's so anxiety drive absolutely and
then like you're you're younger at that time, so so you don't really have
you feel an anxiety, but you don't know how to manage it the right
way. So you're just kind of panicking like, oh my god, don't
fuck it, and you're so. I for sure it was feeling that then,
but I just didn't know how to manage it the best way. Now
it's like breathing techniques and grounding and blah blah blah. You know, yeah,
I just I just I don't know. I just it brought me back
to those days of just like how fucking crazy it was, and nobody And
something I also I've realized is like nobody knows what you're going through, like
because someone else like said something to me and they were talking about like that
kind of stuff for them, and I was like, oh, I had
no clue. The same case and poys, but like I'm a mess and
I feel the same with a lot of stuff out at hiding. I yes,
And I think that comes with just the job. You have to you
have to hide certain stuff because you can't you don't want people looking at you
and thinking something, Yeah. I mean so I kind of comes with it,
and I don't know. Yeah, um okay, So when when you
got into wrestling, were you a little scared little boy or were you?
Yeah? I was. I had a what's the word, like a helicopter
parents, overbearing parents, you know what I mean. So it's like I
was kind of kind of sheltered. I felt barry sheltered. I I went
out and I did stuff, I had friends, but it was a lot
of overbearing, overbearing and sheltered Barry sheltered. So then finally turn eighteen,
it's one of the things were like I'm gonna do whatever the hell I want
you know, Uh no, you can't join wrestling school when you're seventeen,
and I'm eighteen, Like, well I'm gonna do it. So my eighteenth
birthday, I went in to join wrestling school and you know, tell me
about how not you're but like, what does that mean? So you're assume
me from Los Angeles? I've yeah, born and raised in Los Angeles,
and it was I commuted to school, to the wrestling school while I was
also full time at university, and they just they just thought I was wasting
my time. But it's wrestling. Really. That was I guess, my
way to finally take over what is mine, you know what I mean.
It's like instead of having someone else kind of guiding me, I was like,
I'm taking my own life into my hands. And and I mean better
or for worse. I turned me into an outgoing, crazy adult man.
So where in La are you fling? I was born in Burbank. I
grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, and then I lived back in Burbank now but
k fab from Carson City, Nevada. Oh yes, you're from I was,
yeah, I grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, the home of the Bucks.
Yeah, they were. I think we went to rival high schools.
They were Alta Loma High School graduates and I'm Los Olsos High School graduates.
I mean, I didn't think it was a real place until I met the
Bucks. And now all of a sudden, there's the Bucks, there's Cutler,
there's you there. It's like, wait, all these people are from
there. Who would have thought that Rachekukamuka, California as a wrestling town?
Did you know about are you guys the same agesh Me and Nick Car?
Did you participate in their backyard wrestling? No? I don't. I think
they weren't living in Rancho. Maybe at that time my parents wouldn't let you
know. They might have been in a high desert and my parents would not.
Yeah. Absolutely. Oh were you obsessed with wrestling? Once I learned
about it in early elementary school, I immediately was obsessed with it. Yeah,
I'm wondering why you didn't find this backyard group that was putting on like
look, I don't know, I don't know. Did you read their book
and did you like know there? I don't want to put your apother book,
but like, was that like a like was it like, was it.
I don't. I think there was. It just their little bubble or
I think so. Yeah. But I also I think they were living in
the High Desert at the time Victorville. I don't know the difference. Victorville
is like an hour away from Kukamonga, so I think they might have moved
at the time, but I'm not one hundred percent sure. Okay, I
just met met a couple of friends in high school and when I had like
Steve Austin shirts, and I was like, what is this? You know?
And they started telling me and then I tried to watch and my folks
wouldn't let me watch it, and then uh, just flipping channels. I
think we were on like a vacation with some family friends and they had both
they had some sons as well, and I would hang out with and we
were flipping through channels and they came across Undertaker and Steve Auston fighting. I
said, hey, go back, and they laughed, were you like this
ship? And I said, yeah, let's turn it back. And I
watched Steve Austin and fight the Undertaker? Is that do you think? Is
that religious? Or like your parents being like you can't watch wrestling. I
don't know what it is. Like my mom as a kid was around it
with like her father and and and her family because they went to the Grand
Olympic. She remember she brought up the Destroyer to me like that and all
the I love when older people bring up random like yeah, like in Chicago,
it's like I used to watch Go, used to watch Moose no exactly
that. I was like, oh shit, you know, but I don't
know where the disconnect eventually was. My my dad grew up watching Luca Libre
and then he told me when he found out it was fake, it like
made him so angry and I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What what what?
Huh what? It's what? It's what? It's what. I didn't hear.
You are both of your parents has fan just my dad Okay, yeah,
my mom's a white lady. Uh. And did your dad come from
Mexico? He came from Cuba? Oh shit, yeah, okay, from
about like during the Wars. He came in the seventies when they were letting
when Castor was letting people go, so him, my aunt Molly, and
my grandmother and my great grandmother, they all left with just the clothes on
their backs and came over here and then eventually ended up in California where my
grandmother, single mom from Cuba, was raising two children and helping with her
her mother to live in California. How did they turn it around? Just
hustling, hustling that my my my dad and my my aunt would work work
from a young age to help help bring home stuff. My dad was telling
him all he's stories that he had as like a server at like the Bottom
Venture in downtown LA and stuff like that, and just how much hustling they
would have to do. And then he eventually got himself into real estate and
he became real good at real estate, and he was able to become a
very successful successful man. He owns properties. Yeah, he has a family,
you know, his wife and me a son, and I have a
sister m He now lived own a property into Mecca and there you could take
very good care of themselves. He's really an American story, the American dream,
American dream, American story. Have you ever been back to Cuba?
They have? I have not, are you? I don't know. My
ignorance is very high. But like we weren't allowed to go to Cuba for
a while. No, I don't know if we're still all. I don't
know if we're not allowed to either. I think he just still thought got
to go about it a certain way to get there. I also was like
when I was young, they I wasn't. They didn't have really have me
learned Spanish either. It was just like no everything. They didn't really want
to be be very cuban. Um and you don't know Spanish. I don't
know span. I now I know a lot better. I can understand it,
but speaking it is still difficult. Have you gone like in your older
years, have you gone and asked like the exact reason or uh, like
my grandmother has passed away, my great grandmother's passed away, uh, and
just whatever little vague explanation I've been to get able to get from my dad.
But it's just more now he's like, no, go go learn I
I what the fuck? Like? Go whoops? So yeah, whoops?
My bad? Okay, So they love you there. Maybe there's probably something.
There's there's something Cuban in there, I think so. I think it's
the they're holding on to you for eight seventeen point five. The options I
was given of a job career was like medicine, an attorney, you know,
or something business where you can make a lot. Less matter Jewish parents.
All right, so you you're eighteen. I did the same thing.
I said, Mom, I'm eighteen, I'm a grown up. I can
make my own descent. I'm going to wrestling school. She wanted me to
go to college, and I did have to. But then I also went
to wresting school because I'm eighteen. Yeah, fine, I'll go to college.
But I'm a grown up. You can't tell me what to do.
But okay, you can also tell me what to do as long as you
let me go to wrestling school for my college. Okay, who do you
find? Who do you find? And how do you find? Oh?
Okay, So I am I think at the time, I'm still seventeen.
I'm not eighteen yet, and I'm at a I have this little job,
my first job ever, at a at the mall, the Victoria Gardens,
And it's a little little kiosk outside that sell in their courtyard that sells T
shirts and it was your Skin Industries. Those a god awful bro T shirts
like the naked women and it's just so cringe bullshit. I sold all this
Inland Empire dog shit clothes. And then slow day I had the computer and
I'm just on the Internet. I went on world famous socalen censor dot com
and found Charles Mercury had posted something on the most message boards about wrestling school
in Anaheim. So when I turned eighteen, I went down there. Now,
were you a person that was going to sokael like every day? I
was, Oh, so consensu. I never posted, So I was never
a board guy that posted, but I did. I would go to it
because I wanted to no events. I wanted to look up events, and
then I also wanted to see, so you were you were going to indies
too? I started I was at this point going to indie's. My very
first show i'd gone to was PWG in Rosita, and then I went to
a couple more, and then I started going to uh E WF nearby Jesse
Hernandez's. I went to a couple of Aws Spark Kapitski shows where I saw
Adam Pierce beat the shit out of a little cholo with the Induba title.
You could have put anybody in that, anybody, anybody. Yeah, And
I'll never forget that show because I don't know what it was, but Pierce,
he spat, he spat this loogie and it ended up right on my
friend Google's and I lost my mind because I saw he was He's this white
guy said the real pasty skin and his face just got red as a tomato.
And I'm just best show. And Pierce could not give a five up.
Yeah, it was seen him beat up many audience members. Yes,
it was just nothing to laugh about it, right, I'm all was laughing
out of sadness. Yes, I feel he's changed his ways, but who
really knows at this point. I love at him one of our favorites,
of course. Okay, yeah, because I don't know. I'm always curious.
It's just like for me, it was a little bit of like oh
the first like they say, do your research, but I'm just like a
wrestling school near me, I gotta go. I did. I did do
my research. EWF was too too much money for what I had at the
time. I was, you know, just that little job. And then
uh, I don't know if you was PW might have been gone, and
then I don't know if there was any I don't think I found. Some
of the others that I found were too too far and in other states,
and then just Charles Mercury was running his academy up in junction with other academies,
so it was like you pay. It was sixty bucks a month and
I could go to any one of these classes. The only trainer I knew
of though, was Charles because he was on PWG and he was doing all
the stuff around in the area, so I did kind of do my research.
He also had Scorpio Sky and at the time Ronan and Mister Excitement,
and then uh, he would have a couple of others. I would come
through, like Scott Lost and Chris Hero was there my first day. Cannas
Lerey taught me my roles. Yeah, it was great. The young Bucks
came through a couple of times and like like rerolled around together. So he
had schools at different places. He had just the one school in Anaheim,
but it was a part of another It was a part of a jiu jitsu
gym that also had other wrestling schools that ran out of it. And it
wasn't his ring. It was Food Dogs Ring, Rest in Peace, Okay,
Yeah, it was just it was a local guy in the area and
Chris Hero was at your first day of wrestling training. He was at my
first day of wrestling training and I was like, oh, this is cool,
but I couldn't learn anything from him again because I don't know anything.
And Cannas Larey blessed her heart, was very sweet to us. And you
know, she took me and my friend Googles, who was training with me
at the time, took us away from the other students, showed us our
roles, and then threw us back in with the other students. Right,
have you ever told hero of that story? H Like, there's I mean,
there's no way he remember. I don't think you'd remember. I haven't.
I don't have see I haven't run into him a long time. I
don't talk to that man. I'm tell him when I see him next.
Yeah, I was very upset that he didn't teach me. He was great
man. He was he was great and having a lot of nice things to
say, and he did help us, like with tweak our roles and stuff
like that to fix him. So that was really cool. So Charles Murkley
was your number one. But but there is something, I mean, I
think PWG speaks for it, and there's this like there is like a family.
Well, I don't know. I feel in Chicago everyone was fighting,
uh you know, like don't go to this place, don't go to this
place, don't go to this place. But but but knowing that PWG started
with the six and you just saying that everyone would just kind of come in,
it does seem like everyone was kind of like trying to help each There
was a lot of people that did want that camaraderie because it's like why why
have this weird tension. A lot of schools did kind of have that energy,
and there's still schools that do that are currently still having that energy where
it's like, you know, gang gang kind of shit and it's uh,
it's corny, so corny bro. Yeah, but it's nice that you could
have all of these people, did you would you recognize them because you would
go to local shows or the other wrestlers or yeah, like the yeah you
know mister excitement. I mean if you don't know who he is, you
don't know who I knew all who all these guys, Yeah, all these
guys. I had a I had old old stuff, old footage too,
Like, uh, I went back and watched a lot of old like Rev
Bro and stuff in the area, and I just I knew all who all
these guys were. It was great. So Top Talwar was kind of So
when I get released from the WWE in two thousand and nine, Dave Marquez
is starting up, uh, this new Adventure Championship Wrestling from Hollywood in what
was the beautiful arena, the Galaxy, the Galaxy Galaxy, which I think
up W used to run. Think so it's called the Observatory right now,
I think. Okay, Dave Meltzers, yeah, uh And so you and
I wrestle yep, yeah, and we I think maybe even the first match
we were We were the very first match of the entire program's existence. Yeah,
yeah, were with us? And where? And I mean I know
you, I just remember you were I don't know green, you were a
good ver, yeah, but you were young but good enough that like,
I don't know, I feel like Dave, you know you had you couldn't
be fresh out of wrestling school and doing that position, right, And then
I remember Adam praising you, Um, but where were you at your career
in that point? It was twenty it was twenty ten when I think August
twenty ten when the show started. I had my debut technically is November two
thousand and um an eight. But I had like a single match and then
I didn't have another match until like April two thousand and nine, so I
was like pretty much a rookie and a half. Okay, yeah, well
but but when you got that second match, then did you start putting?
Yes? Then I was consistent. I was consistently getting booked. I had
two, three, four or five and six followed pretty soon. You know
what I mean? How does that? How does that work? On the
scene like that? How do you I was This is when I started splitting
myself between schools. When I came I had gotten December two thousand and seven,
June to December was I was training at the end of that. In
December, I broke my arm and I was out for eight months because I
also had surgery to put a plate in my arm and take the plate out.
When I came back to finally be able to roll around again, Charles
School's gone, so I went to Aws School and EWF School and I was
just drive back and forth so I can get multiple days of training at once
Barts twice a week, and then Jesse's once or twice a week, and
then I just started excelling from there. And they're the promoters also yes,
and then I had a spot opened up on a San Berdandino show in November
and they're like, hey, you want to wrestle, you have your stuff,
And I did have my stuff. I called up I called up Sky
and put in a few of the other trainers and I had to see if
I can get their blessing, and they said yes. I called Bart.
I was like, hey, I know I've been training at your thing.
We'd say I debut there. It's a cool if I do it here,
go ahead, do your thing. And then I think my second third match
were at with AWS. And then my sixth match ever I won the lightweight
belt. I beat T J. Perkins. Yes, okay, and then
I mean, listen, aw he was obvious, Like the idea of like
starting up and getting it is obviously I'm going to assume the highlight of like
yes, right, yes, absolutely, but yes, but what were what
were some of those milestones like how did you look at the t NA thing,
How did you look at like like when what were the big big things
where you were like, oh this was this is a this was the next
step in my career. Uh, I've always wanted to be a TV wrestler,
so uh, our our match was was a big deal for me because
I got to wrestle you and then I got to also take that was aw
Hollywood. Yes, yeah, so these are the milestones you just want.
Aw no, no, no no, I wanted before. Oh yo,
like yeah that, but I was like, we wrestled because you and I
wrestled an aw it's probably my favorite AW match. I don't know. That
was so much fun. But that the our first match Chapionship Wrestling from Hollywood.
It was a big deal for me because like your Colcabana, I was
nothing and at the you know, at the fucking time. So I was
like given that opportunity to wrestle a star in my first ever television match,
and like that was a big milestone for me. And then Impact was a
big one for me, even though it was a big one for me too
because I was also in awful mental health and in the worst physical shape of
my life. But it got me a job, which is odd to me,
you know, like to be absolutely the skinniest and in my end just
unhappy and depressed and I got a job, so I was like, all
right, let's do this and that was good. That was that was?
That felt good? Uh? And what was it? Was like Furnam nor
Fernam and I just wrestled EC three a bunch and then the Romans once and
then what was the story then? And I think it was EC three was
he was a Dixie Carter's nephew and they were gonna hype him in his debut
against like a superstar athlete or whatever, and then here comes my little scritty
ass out. But how did you? Why are you the one? Were
they in LA So they were coming out that way and they hit up a
wrestler in the area who started, uh, you started asking around, just
find somebody in the p that he was suggesting. He suggested Kevin Martinson.
He suggested, I think Yuma, Johnny Yuma. And they're like, like,
too, they look too much like wrestlers. We need a guy who
doesn't look like a wrestler. So they suggested it's good old skinny boy pretty
Pete and they said that's it. Yeah. But at that point, you
I feel you were doing had you done PWG at them? Yes? Yeah,
so like yes, you're accomplished wrestler, Yes, I do. I'd
also shrunk physically, like in the middle of my career, got even skinnier
than when I debuted and then I like came back and it's just it was,
it was just a weird time in my life. Yeah, okay,
Yeah, Well, what you didn't say doing a PWG show in your milestones
P TOWG, I'm gonna call you, I don't know p to BG even
as a milestone. It absolutely, but it's it's kind of it got very
bittersweet towards the end, kind of disappointing, um, because we we had
a lot of moment We had momentum going in and I think we had a
lot of good matches, um, But a lot of people didn't give the
same respect to the SOCO guys on those shows that they did to all these
other fucking guys. Yeah. Yeah, including like and behind the scenes,
there's a lot of just you know, guys kind of trying to punk us
and all that kind of shit. Super Dragon was kind of a dick too
when it came to a lot of us, and it's just like, yeah,
it is what it is. Yeah, Well, I mean but and
well I see your feelings now, and I shouldn't have asked, but I
have no ill will I think, I mean to think, I think are
cool. I've I've tried to I've reached out to him, you know,
but it is what it is. Yeah, But I would imagine if you're
a young especially in that error, well yeah, no, if you're a
young LA wrestler, Yeah, it's the mecca. I would say at the
time, I don't know about now. Well, but I honestly don't.
I don't know anything about wrestling now either. I don't know the perspective of
certain indie wrestling like I know that I think it still exists because some guys
that debut and haven't been there that long or like stoked about it. Yeah,
so I guess good for you. Yeah. And then did you do
WW stuff or just the enhancement stuff. I did enhancement stuff, and I
had a tryout in front of producers at I think it was an Arizona one
that I was an extra at, and they lay loved it, and I
was kept in mind for a job on two or five Live. And then
I got contract here yeah here in Germany added in Germany, yeah, aw,
yeah, And then any other like any other things that like when I
say about milestones that pop up before you get that contract with AW, there's
a lot of TV stuff. China was a big one. And then becoming
uh either writer and headed charge at a Championship Press of Arizona, so having
like being in charge of an entire new show. It was a regional broadcast
to Arizona, just in with Aaron Phoenix, who Son and Yuma and just
to come in there. It was only three years old too. We came
in and we really we changed the scene. The first year of the show
was very difficult. So this Marquees had had a hand. Did he did
he take over something that was three years old? Soo Marquees uh with Championship
Wrestling from Hollywood. He had then started becoming this United Wrestling thing where he
was trying to start up different cast programs across the country and it's all become
like one big unit, one big loop, you know. Yeah, the
United Wrestling in Memphis and LA and then Phoenix and uh the Arizona broadcast was
really the test for it. So we had this this promoter that we worked
with in Tucson and we ran out of the Desert Diamond Casino for about a
year with this show, with this TV show, and then we moved to
Phoenix in the last two years because we lost the relationship with the casino and
that promoter. So that's why me and my partner Mick Greenwood, we took
over in charge of Arizona and we turned it around just you. That was
me and Mick green Mick Greenwood, Yeah, yeah, so the US too.
So we because I remember when Dave and the Championship Wrestling from Hollywood Crew,
only because I was part of it for so long, like they would
start like taking the bus over the Arizona that so the very first show Marquez
went and then after that he never went. It was just me and Mick
ran the entire show. Uh. Mick would set up a lot of the
stuff with the with the building, the Nile Theater, and I would set
up a lot of the stuff with the with the wrestlers, and we would
write. We wrote the stories to Geather and we made this the entire show
happen just the two of us. Did this happen on purpose or did you
seek this out? I don't on purpose or did you seek it out?
It kind of it kind of fell on my lap. I've always been interested
in stuff, and I was already kind of producing at the Championship Russell from
Hollywood Show, and then when the opportunity came up, David asked me,
would you like to for you and Mick to be in charge? I say,
absolutely, let's do it. Is it an overtaken did you find was
it overwhelming? It was at first. This is the reason why I do
none of Like people are just like, do you want to produce? Well,
I do produce for a w when I'm there, but or not for
Ring about Her. But like you know, people are like, do you
want a book? Would you want to promote? And it's just like,
like, I get paid nice money to wrestle. It's ten minutes, Like
I it seems so hard to just overtake all of this stuff. I wanted
to. I just I guess I wanted to have an over a complete resume.
I want to know. It's like when people say I Could'm all in
compass you, I could do it all. I wanted to be not bullshit
about it. I wanted it's like, oh, I've written, I promoted,
I've done this, I've done this, I've done this and it just
was a lot of fun. It was stressful, it don't get me wrong,
but it was a lot of fun. And I really believe that we
changed that the Phoenix scene like for the better. It got to the point
where the show would put itself together. We would pull up sometimes like an
half hour late, and the entire ring crew is there setting up the ring,
the doors wide open, and like the show is put together already because
of like the relationship we built with everybody in the area. So it's like
it started becoming not stressful at all. It was it was like a walk
in the park. We all looked forward to going every month in this van
of Pylon's van to drive to Phoenix, just like a crew. It's five
or six eight hours, eight hours, yeah, but it being it flew
by because we had the boys and it was a lot of fun. Yeah.
And saw you said, you saw the crew like grow wrestlers right immensely.
Yeah. Man, everybody really got a hang of what it was to
be a TV wrestler. And I noticed that big time when we did the
extra work at the Phoenix WWE event, because all the other extras were my
guys from from from the Arizona show except for two of them, and then
those two ended up being paired to do a match and the match was But
then all my guys in there had hell of TV matches that even the producers
were like looking at him, like, good job, good job. And
of course I'm patting myself on the fucking back because me and Mick turned them
into TV wrestlers. You know, do you think do you think about schools
and that kind of stuff, like in your future? I had a school
I was. I guess that's another one, another another milestone moment because it
I got to train David Arquette from from the school hit Why are you not
telling me that? Yeah? That's the fucking It was awesome. This podcast
is old. Shout out to David. It was. I ran the United
Russells Center in Oxnard, and I would have classes twice a week. I
had just an a bunch of people come through, and but then I would
start just taking private, private lessons. H David Laghana suggested me to David
Arquette about training. He called me, left me a voicemail. I'll called
them back when he set it up, and he ultimately he bought a ring
put it in his yard and I trained him at his house. Yeah,
I mean, take that's so interesting. I don't know if there's like any
more details of like was he just explaining Hey, I mean I guess he's
done enough interviews, right. Oh it was about his Uh it was this
movie and everything he was trying to talk. He told me about what he
had in mind and what he wants to do, and I said, yeah,
let's do it. Did he have fun stuff that you were just like,
you can't do that or I don't you know. He was very respectful.
So he's respectful and he's cool, like he's funny, and he's he's
oddly athletic, like I don't know what. Like everyone was like is he
It was like, yes, yes, he's very oddly athletic. Like it
was awesome. It was a lot of fun. Did you guys ever end
up wrestling? We did. We had we headlined a Championship Wrestling from Hollywood
show at the Urbine Improv. We sold it, sold it out. It
was a very I think, our very first show there. So I've had
line the Improv. But he his first match was RJ right on our broadcast
when we filmed it. An Ox start his match with first match on our
show? Was I just meant his first match in general or was it or
was it in I think it was J. I think it was r J.
I think like I think like when they announced like David's wrestling, Yeah,
I think it was would he come down and train with you guys or
are J? Yeah? I think what I mean, you know, like
to put this match to get right right? I think as we got closer
he came out here. I think we I don't remember. I think like
the day of we did most of that stuff and we might have had a
rehearse. I don't remember. And then so that makes me think of like
benefits of a Los Angeles wrestler in the entertainment industry. Yeah, um,
did you do family feud? I did? Yeah, So like and if
it's just family feud, but I don't know if there's other There has to
be so many because it's Hollywood. Yeah, and they're always asking like roles
of a wrestler, yeah, or just weirder opportunities that people wouldn't get.
I don't know, if you have a list, did some extra work,
I've done some stunt work. I met David Arquette on a set of of
a film before I actually trained him. Um, anything, I wouldn't know.
No, I never got completed. It's called Hank and the San Diego
Twins and it never got fucking completed. Um. And then I was I
joined the stunt crew for a little bit and we did a couple of movies.
It was one called I think it was called Pandemic and it was like
first person zombie movie and like in in the trailer, I'm strapped to an
ambulance as a zombie just going. Uh. So that was cool. I
got to do. I got to fall off roofs with like a GoPro on
my head and I got a shot with a shotgun. So squibs were popping
off of me and getting thrown over cars and everyone thought I had been a
stuntman for years. I was like, this is my first day. It
was easy and they're like what yeah. Yeah. And then to what was
family? Few just uh, David's family. That was our family, and
it was just it was four wrestlers. It was me, RJ. Dalton,
Castle and Jungle Boy and then David and then we were against p Pee
wee Hermann's team. It was all people from that had been on involved in
his show for a long time, like Jack Harry was there, Drew Carey
jokes, Joe mag Magne, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well any
even the idea of like we were talking before before, is that Tom Kenny
SpongeBob as announced your matt, you know, like even luchavavoom is I would
put in consideration of like this is a holly. I was gonna also say
that's another milestone too, because I got a job at Vavoom in the same
time I got a job at Tena because of how shitty I looked at the
matt. I did a match at Bavoom. I love avoom so much where
they they teamed me with Candice Larraine. She was like she was my little
girlfriend on the beach and on the on the card in the back it called
me the ninety pound Weekling, So I was the ninety pound weekly to come
out with my little little blonde girlfriend. And then it was Cha Chay Caribrera
and SoCal under a mask and he came out all big and he was called
monta Quia mask or something like they know, butterface. And then he comes
over and he starts like kick sand in my face, starts flirting with my
girlfriend. Then his big old chingo and a girlfriend comes up. It's pointing
out, I'm what are you doing? Flirting? Flirting, flirting, and
then it turns into an inter gender mixed tag match, and then the finish
of the match was my girlfriend turns on me to go joined up with Montequia
and then uh, we turned around and me and the big thick girl beat
them up and then we go leave together. And that got you kind of
a spot and it was a lot of fun. Yeah, I got it,
got me a consistent spot on Bavoom. I'm in the Sexy Mexis now,
and then I do a bunch of other bunch of other acts that she
has me do. Right, I'm supposed to be on the one in October,
and I'm excited for that. But that's the cool thing about that is
just like I remember, you know, I love friend wrestling. I love
the weirdness. I love that, you know, the wrestling at games kind
I think it is like, is uh just a just a crazy thing.
You look back at Tommy Dreamer wrestling at E three, you know, like
for easy w whatever, it is like we're in the record books of just
weird wrestling stuff and I remember being like luch of them was coming Dichicago.
I was like, I gotta get on the show. And you know,
I know that like my name held some value. I was in w but
they didn't give a fuck. And when I pitched, like I was like,
oh, I also did this Matt classic character for a wrestling Society X.
They're like, oh, what is that? The masked weirdness like let
score skies doing the Black President or whatever. That was amazing. I got
to be a secret services there on one of them. Yeah, and then
uh he was l presidental with a secret Service and we had a match against
It was Halloween times. We had a match against like monsters, so we
had a zombie, an alien, and a bunch of others. You wrestled
as a secret I wrestled the President secret Service that's got black suit and glasses.
Such a great show. I love creativity and it's great, man,
It's so good. Um okay, so then you know it leads you to
the aw starts. I guess we're are you. You know a lot of
people were just like I think I won't speak for you, but a lot
of people in wrestling until you know, I feel the young Bucks and Kenny
like saved everybody. We're just like, well, I guess this is what
it is, and we'll just do our thing until whatever. And next thing,
you know, you know, with a snap of the fingers, it's
like some some of all of our friends are on national television. Yeah,
it was. It was insane. Is that? How do I mean?
How does is that how it works out for? It's just your Yeah.
But then's like then the two or five stuff came to me too, so
by that at the same time as the a W stuff, So I had
to come had to come sooner. I wouldn't have been in that and that
brain, but I was kind of in that brain too. It's like but
it was a positive mindset. We were. We were doing a lot of
cool stuff in the area with like bar wrestling was still a thing at the
time, and um I had started, I'd gone to like CZW and uh
I had worked in the Midwest a couple of times, so I was like,
I think there's still potential here to do something make some money. And
then I'm I'm now the Championship Wrestling, I'm Hollywood producing there and riding Arizona.
So I'm like, oh, there's potential there, you know, it's
a real later and then uh and then when AW does start, it's like,
Wow, now there's this is real, this is some and you're,
yeah, I don't know what you is it Tony's vision for a librarian?
Is that what it was? I was told that all of this stuff by
I think it was the Bucks and Cody. Cody had just slid in my
DMS at one point after working together and said, hey, keep may may
open. I said, okay, and that's it. I just okay,
and then um, I think CD and Sky and all them kind of told
me what this idea was about the librarian. It was Tony's idea, and
then the Bucks had their own take on it as well, and then uh
yeah, then it just hear a librarian. I kind of had to do
my own research to kind of figure out what it was, because really it
was just like you say, shows and that's how you get heat. Tony
had one one idea of it, the Bucks had one idea of it,
and then I tried to combine them into something where we're also telling two different
stories. We have one story on BT and then there's one story on the
air, and it got kind of it got it got confusing sometimes, but
it was a nice challenge. Yeah, I mean, and like you're not
whatever you're You're the library and is no longer a thing, right, but
sometimes like my dream was of just like let's say, like when I went
to w B, like I was like, man, if they just told
me to, like you're the butcher now, and you know, I was
in. I was in. I wanted to. I was trying my damnedest
to be a librarian. I but I was like Cracker and Jones, I'll
just scoping people go to the school, go to school, become a librarian.
Like I was researching what it did. I was reading more, you
know, I went and bought specific clothes. I was trying to do it,
and I was I was gung ho, trying to be all in.
No pun intended, pun intended, Yeah, yeah, well intended. I
wanted to be completely all in for this character. And I would have been
the like I would be if they wanted me to be library now up until
the end, I would have done it and I would have evolved it on
the way as you should, right, I am had I had maybe some
more help in developing what the character was or where it should have gone.
Then you know, right, but then you have this crew now which I
love, which is so fun, right, I love the Wingman. Yeah.
And then Jacksonville, like you know, there's something about being like a
wrestlers wrestler. Uh, it's just when you when you're when you're popping the
boys, I feel like you're that you're doing it right, you know,
like not like a secret like, but when the wrestlers are excited for people's
characters. Yeah, in my head, that's when you're doing the job correct.
I agree. And you know there was like always a buzz about in
Jacksonville is just like how much the wrestlers just love the Wingman. That makes
me happen. And you know it came from kind of just a hodgepodge of
dudes, and it's just like I think it was a hodgepadge of people that
everyone liked. Yeah, and like we're hoping something and then it was nice
when it all comes together and I'm sure you make some new friends and you
guys, we honestly the four of us really connected and it's it's it's it's
really funny watching like them into rat because it's like we have all been friends.
It seems like we've all been friends for years. At a point,
you know, Big says there Big, you know, Big j D,
and then me and themith dumbasses, you know, yeah, and I don't
know, like I you know, says there had some stuff with his family.
And then also, like you know, you think about like a man
who moves his whole first of all, a man who looks like that,
Yeah, it should be the champion of the war of the world. Yeah,
absolutely, And then he's got to move his family back, so like
it's all it's cool that there was a spot. Yeah, and to really
get them to open up and learn about them, like I says, Our
is one of the greatest humans, the sweetest dudes, and yeah, and
um and that's and here we are today in Germany, right and this is
my favorite fucking trip man, Like I haven't. I've had a blast hanging
out with you, with Uno and yeah, everyone in Helico CD. It's
great. Knox. You know you you talked about going back a little bit.
You talked about being you were in your worst place. You were booked
as a ninety pound man. Yeah, I mean, but you turned it
like, yeah, you look like a wrestler, thank you. Yeah,
yeah, it was motivating that that all that stuff kind of you let it
motivate you instead of just you know, fuck up. How was that turnaround?
Was it just like I gotta go to the gym now, or I
gotta start eating or yeah eat, you just started eating. And it's still
the hardest thing for me to do. But it's just sucking down. And
you're, brother, yes I am, that's the fan imagine. Yeah,
I've always been overactive thyroid when I was a child. And yeah, though
you know, it's just about calories, right, it's just sucking about everything
down. And then that's what I struggle on these trips because I just I
have to, I think, travel with like a ten pound bag of rice
on with me. You know. Yeah, I'm the complete opposite my friend.
I Yeah, everyone when we talk to when I talk weight to a
lot of people, they're like, all, I wish I had your problem,
Like right, please don't say you know, it's like it's sometimes I
feel like I look like a legitimate stick figure, you know, but I've
had that. I'm I'm self aware enough where like I'm not always happy with
it, but I but I do always see the other side of the other
side of the body type of was struggling that way too. It does make
sense to me. You're self aware and you're smart. That's why, right,
Well a lot, right, a lot of people aren't. It could
drive into problems, right, that's true. But I'm everything's looking good for
you. Thank you, man um, thanks for doing this, Thanks for
having me. Yeah, you you're okay with the mustache in real life.
I have been now, yes I have. I've now tweaked it to how
I like it. I didn't like it at first. It was a little
too long on the sides and it was like very I was like, did
you grow out for sexiness or for librarians? So I had just a shit
beard, this shit beard at the time, and I was I had it
on Championship rustling from Hollywood, and I was like, I need a shave.
This looks like shit. So at the at the time, it was
at the Hollywood Towers, which was Marquez lived in the front house and then
there was a backhouse on the property where I lived there. The director Billy
Trask lived there and some wrestlers lived there, and I was shaving and I
had to. I just had the mustache and I started laughing just how it
looked. It was all long and kind of whispy, and like, all
right, I'm gonna show Dave. It was like huh, he goes keep
it and I go, fuck you, and he goes, no, keep
it. I go all right, And it was like we were gonna go
to a New Year's party that night, so I was like, I was,
let me go pop the goofs at the party. And then the reaction
I was getting from everybody else I was drinking drinks. I was like,
hmm, yeah, I'll keep it around. And then I started just making
it like that until I liked it. You know, I think the world
likes it. I think so I specifically thank you very much as I keep
there, not into your eyes, but into your mustle, my beautiful stash.
Thanks for being on, but thanks bro. Peter Avalon can be found
on Instagram at Ppa all Day and Twitter at p Avalon. I want to
thank Peter for sitting down with me at gains Com in Cologne, Germany.
I thought maybe my international traveling days were done, but what a treat to
do a little tour and all the matches. Actually, there's a headband from
the match I had with Chris Daniels in Germany still up, signed and dated
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